Wor(l)d International Review: Overpriced Helo fitness bands?

Wor(l)d International began life as Global Mobile Network back in 2010. Founded by CEO and President Fabio Galdi, Wor(l)d International initially appeared to be headquartered in Singapore, with operations in Italy and China.

Today Wor(l)d International provide a sole corporate address in the US state of Florida.

Residual Commissions

A binary compensation structure places an affiliate at the top of a binary team, split into two sides (left and right):

The first level of the binary team houses two positions. The second level of the binary team is generated by splitting these first two positions into another two positions each (4 positions).

Subsequent levels of the binary team are generated as required, with each new level housing twice as many positions as the previous level.

Positions in the binary team are filled via direct and indirect recruitment of affiliates. Note that there is no limit to how deep a binary team can grow.

Commissions are paid out as a percentage of sales volume generated by the weaker binary side each week.

How much of a percentage is paid out is determined by generated binary team sales volume:

100 PV generated on both sides of the binary team = 10% of weekly weaker binary volume

300 PV generated on both sides of the binary team = 15% of weekly weaker binary volume

450 PV generated on both sides of the binary team = 20% of weekly weaker binary volume

Binary commissions are capped weekly based on the following criteria:

100 PV generated on both sides of the binary team = $500 a week

300 PV generated on both sides of the binary team = $2000 a week

450 PV generated on both sides of the binary team = $50,000 a week

Double President Millionaire – $100,000 a week

Grand President Millionaire – $200,000 a week

Wor(l)d International affiliates are able to receive up to three binary positions, effectively permitting them to triple earnings on generated binary team volume.

Fidelity Box

The Fidelity Box bonus is made up of 1% of generated weaker side binary volume.

The Fidelity Box bonus is paid out annually, subject to the qualifying affiliate maintaining Fidelity membership for twelve months.

There’s no mention of Fidelity membership on the main Wor(l)d International website.

A Google search reveals it’s some sort of “proprietary wireless technology” but the Wor(l)d International website page it links to was broken (database error) at the time of publication.

Generation Bonus

The Generation Bonus is paid out via a unilevel compensation structure.

A unilevel compensation structure places an affiliate at the top of a unilevel team, with every personally recruited affiliate placed directly under them (level 1):

If any level 1 affiliates recruit new affiliates, they are placed on level 2 of the original affiliate’s unilevel team.

If any level 2 affiliates recruit new affiliates, they are placed on level 3 and so on and so forth down a theoretical infinite number of levels.

Commissions are paid out as a matching percentage of residual binary commissions earned across ten levels of the unilevel team as follows:

Silver – 10% match on level 1 (personally recruited affiliates

Gold and Platinum – 10% on level 1 and 5% on level 2

Diamond to Grand Diamond – 10% on level 1 and 5% on levels 2 and 3

President – 10% on level 1 and 5% on levels 2 to 4

Double President – 10% on levels 1 and 2 and 5% on levels 3 to 5

Grand President – 10% on levels 1 and 2 and 5% on levels 3 to 6

President Millionaire – 10% on levels 1 and 2 and 5% on levels 3 to 7

Double President Millionaire – 10% on levels 1 and 2, 5% on levels 3 to 7 and 1% on level 8

Grand President Millionaire – 10% on levels 1 and 2, 5% on levels 3 to 7 and 1% on levels 8 to 10

Millionaire Pool

President Millionaire ranked Wor(l)d International affiliates qualify for a share in the Millionaire Pool.

This Millionaire Pool is made up of “up to 1%” of Wor(l)d International’s company-wide sales volume.

Car Bonus

Wor(l)d International affiliates who qualify at the Diamond rank for four consecutive weeks receive a $1000 car bonus.

Whether this is an ongoing bonus is not made clear in the Wor(l)d International compensation plan.

Diamond Tour and Millionaire Club Bonus

The Wor(l)d International compensation plan doesn’t go into specifics about the Diamond Tour Bonus.

WOR(l)D’s extraordinary lifestyle is within your reach.

When you participate in the Diamond Life Tour, you experience unforgettable moments — such as premieres around the world,
luxurious gala dinners, and amazing shows — all while building and strengthening your network.

Presumably only Diamond and higher ranked Wor(l)d International affiliates can qualify.

There’s also a “Millionaire Club event”, which only President Millionaire ranked affiliates qualify for.

Luxury Bonus

Wor(l)d International affiliates who qualify at the President Gold rank receive a “Wor(l)d luxury jewel”.

Joining Wor(l)d International

Wor(l)d International affiliate membership is tied to the purchase of “any product or package”.

There doesn’t appear to be any difference between wholesale and retail pricing (at least not on the Wor(l)d International website).

Conclusion

Granted innovation is required if a business model isn’t working out, but there’s a correct and incorrect way to go about it.

Cutting off affiliates who invested in Cloud Units and simply not paying them was definitely not the right way to go about Global Mobile Network’s transition to Wor(l)d International.

This transition has seen Wor(l)d International adopts the “everyone is an affiliate” MLM model, which is criticized for cannibalizing retail sales.

In this model, the only difference between a retail customer and affiliate is the signing of an affiliate agreement.

What this tends to lead to is the MLM opportunity used as a marketing tool (“hey, it doesn’t cost anything”), which in turn translates to company revenue mostly derived from affiliates.

Specifically newly recruited affiliates, which in MLM equates to a pyramid scheme.

There’s also something to be said about forcing affiliates to purchase product to become an affiliate. This introduces a “pay to play” element.

The Fidelity Box commission is 100% pay to play, with only affiliates who shell out for a Fidelity membership even able to earn it.

Moving on the products, FitBit is the obvious competitor to Helo.

The FitBit heart rate models cost about half that of Helo.

BioZen sounds like pseudo-compliance fluff to me, but I did find equivalent units on Amazon (3 units for $23) and Alibaba (79 cents for a pack of five).

This begs the question: Who is going to buy Wor(l)d International’s seemingly overpriced products?

This brings us back to Wor(l)d International’s MLM opportunity being marketed, with the products merely an attempt to legitimize pyramid recruitment.

You buy a Helo or BioZen bundle pack and sign up as a Wor(l)d International affiliate. You then recruit others who do the same, who do the same, who do the same etc. and through recruitment and recruitment alone one can max out the compensation plan.

There are no retail volume requirements in Wor(l)d International whatsoever.

Playing devil’s advocate we do have to acknowledge the possibility of retail sales, but a quick check with a potential upline should reveal it’s not taking place. At least not in any significant numbers, especially when compared to recruited affiliates purchasing product.

I mean really, without the attached Wor(l)d International income opportunity, who is going to buy a $319 fitness band when there are models available from recognized market leaders with established brand presence for less than half the price.

And that’s if you want to go branded. Alibaba has a ton of similar looking fitness bands to Helo and Helo LX for $30 and under (bulk orders).

A publicly available Income Disclosure Statement from Wor(l)d International reveals just under 59% of affiliates made no money during the first quarter of 2017.

The average income for the rest of the affiliate-base was just $393.35 (roughly $33 a week).

The retail commissions for Helo and BioZen are $25 and $45 respectively.

So uh what, on average a Wor(l)d International affiliate isn’t making even one retail sale of Helo a week? That’s not indicative of an MLM company built on a foundation of healthy retail sales.

Once affiliate recruitment dies down, Wor(l)d International will stall – as happened with Global Mobile Network. This will prompt a collapse, which unfortunately will see the majority of Wor(l)d International affiliates lose money.

Might be a good time to pick up a Helo band or BioZen sticker on eBay cheap though…

319 for a fitness band? Hah. Even the most premium model, Fitbit Surge, which is actually a fitness WATCH (it actually has a full display, unlike helo here) is just 250 on official Fitbit website (which means it can be found for less).

Fitness bands without a display should be under $100 MSRP. This thing is so overpriced it’s bordering on hilarious. And $20 a month for users to track their own data? That’s highway robbery.

As a techie I have to say the promises given for the helo band are suspicious at best and fiction at worst.

The recording of mood and emotions is nothing short of a pseudoscience whereas promised future add-ons (that will include monitoring of blood-glucose levels, oxygen levels, blood-alcohol levels and more) sound like reading a sci-fi book.

Assuming they really can track all that via a skin contact sensor 24/7 without adding an IV to the device, it is the most game-changing health band on the planet.

Of the current features I doubt they can get reliable ECG and blood pressure readings from the wrist alone. The ECG at least is probably generated from heart bps, as a real ECG would need chest contactors.

In general I’d love to read a technical test/review of the band, done by some independent tech magazine, site or blog.

Otto, don’t forget… there can be a kind of “magic” achieved with mineral add-ons! E.g. germanium, titanium, recently there were some pure salts… stones placed on inner side of the wrist band can do the trick! LOL!

Recalls me madness with “magic Japanese magnetic wrist bands” in early ’70…

The recording of mood and emotions is nothing short of a pseudoscience whereas promised future add-ons (that will include monitoring of blood-glucose levels, oxygen levels, blood-alcohol levels and more) sound like reading a sci-fi book.

Assuming they really can track all that via a skin contact sensor 24/7 without adding an IV to the device, it is the most game-changing health band on the planet.

I’m one of the Helo developer and i would like to provide to you some information about the science behind Helo.

Almost all the Helo algorithm uses “Machine Learning Technique” for the Estimation of the measurement, and are pretty accurate, the same approach of Artificial Intelligence is being applied to the Estimation of the Glucose level in the blood.

For the Mood and Fatigue Helo it simply uses the HRV (Heart Rate Variability) approach to make the measure. The ECG Technology is developed with Toshiba and you can research about Toshiba progress on the ECG measurement.

Dave:
Seems like a practical feature for members who have sick or elderly friends and family living at a distance.

That sounds like an useful feature although there are existing products for the same.

If it did not promise such a weird stuff like readings for “mood and energy” or “pure Germanium stone upgrade kit” or the alleged update adding the reading of blood alcohol and sugar levels, the HELO band could just as well be a sound and realistic product (albeit with the network model that was so well analyzed in this post and the questionable pricing).

Guys, i think there is some confusion on the price analysis here, the Helo LX Device is priced at $199 and the price you’re talking about is the Helo LX Box Set that includes also the Germanium Plates, 3 Germanium Stones pure at 99.9% for a Total price of $319.

So as you can see the Device is priced much lower than FitBit Surge at $249 but with much more features.

In some countries it is not open yet because we have good demand on the Helo Box Set, but try to change the Store Location to any country outside EU and USA /Canada and you will see it, in few days it will be available also in Europe and USA, the LX just starts deliver 2 weeks ago.

Oz:
Clearly Wor(l)d International aren’t interested in anyone buying the $199 model. They’re quite happy ripping people off for $319.

Actually I can confirm that if you go to store, select the “products” tab and then from top right set “store country” as EGYPT, the 199 USD bracelet (without the bundled box containing germanium stone add-on) will magically appear.
So Braian is right about the $199 bracelet.

Fun fact: the germanium stone add-on costs 120 USD and the box that contains both the bracelet and the germanium stone add-on costs 319 USD, giving you a savings of 0 USD, LOL!

Oz: What does that have to do with ripping people off with a $319 version?

Like I said above (comment #23) the $319 version includes the germanium stone add-on (value $120) whereas the $199 version does not.
For all that I can tell the pricings are consistent between markets.

At any price, a Germanium addon is the scammers version of iron pyrites, the Wor(l)d International Helo band cannot possibly offer all of the functions its’ promoters claim, it costs way more than recognizable brands and is attached to a highly suspect, if not totally illegal compensation plan.

Braian Loh: For the Mood and Fatigue Helo it simply uses the HRV (Heart Rate Variability) approach to make the measure.

Samsung has that capability in their Galaxy S6 phone for free since 2015 in “Samsung Health” app.

As for your blood glucose estimation, you’re NOT the first. Sensewear Pro Armband had been on the market since 2002. You’re 15 years too late to claim that title. And I doubt your estimate accuracy is anywhere near that device.

If only he had access to a device. A device that… somehow monitored pressure in the blood stream.

One could even call it a “blood pressure monitor”. Alas, if only such a device existed.

I don’t mean to make light of your father’s plight. But surely if he was in and out of the ER for blood pressure related issues, having access to a monitoring device (less than $20 device you wear on your wrist from Walmart) is a no-brainer?

Wor(l)d International themselves state their Helo bands aren’t a substitute for medical equipment.

Its the remote monitoring. So I can see his blood pressure when I’m hours away from him, and he doesmt have to take his own BP. And yes, they have a liability disclaimer. You obviously dont see a benefit in remotely monitoring sick or elderly parents vital signs.

You know it looks to me that all the negative people on here have not actually done a side by side comprehensive comparison of Helo LX and these other monitors you claim must be better because they are what, Cheaper?

How many of these bands or gadgets do I have to wear to equal the HELO LX? What’s the upside to goin to Walmart? Oh yeah, the Waltons need some more money.

Why not give the average guy a chance? Why are you people so critical of a company that offers a compensation plan for people working and making a living? (Ozedit: Offtopic derail attempt removed)

I’d suggest until you purchase the product and use it that refrain from trying to give a product analysis by your uninformed best guestimation.

I don’t mean to fuss but it aggravates me to hear people trying to steal other people’s dreams for trying something new and exciting.

You sit there and complain that a person has to spend $319 on a Helo and $59 a month. Where else can you go and start a traditional business for that little money and have the opportunity for sharing the product and all of its great benefits and get paid.

It’s no different from any type salesman working on commission or what’s worse tide to a JOB for a $10-$20 an hour. I’m a general contractor by trade so I look at different opportunities of all kinds to bid on.

The material, labor and overhead are a little scary at times. If there were so many so called problems, wouldn’t there be more blogs, feeds, you tubes and other social medias yelling about it instead of the very few on here.

I do have a HELO LX and I have compared it to clinical equipment at the VA HOSPITAL. All the readings were just 1 or 2 points from each other and that’s close enough for me.

The doctor and nurses thought it was quite remarkable. 2 nurses wanted more info for the income opportunity.

There was no pressure. They were not forced to buy. They can look at it and decide for themselves if it’s a fit for them. If not, no problem. Where is the harm in that?

Oz you are so misinformed. If someone wants to buy the Helo that is it, no other requirement. If they decide they want to start a part time business and get a back office that does all the tracking leg work then one would think $59/mo is cheap overhead for small part time business. (Ozedit: Offtopic derail attempts removed)

I’m just trying to understand how you can even understand the economics on the price of the Helo. Have you or any of the site originators seen the books on costs of R&D, parts, warehousing, patents, personel, office space, licensing, compensations and whatever else goes into it. I sure haven’t.

Did you just pick a number out of the air? So how can you say it’s overpriced? Oh, and I guess the company shouldn’t make a profit?

WGN Is listed on NY Stock Exchange. I’m sure there a strict guidelines that have to be followed to remain an active and viable company.

Oz have you actually done a due diligence on WGN or the Helo LX. It provides 2-3 more times the life sensing technology than the rest.

Heart Rate, ECG, Sleep Quality, Steps and Distance, Calories Burned, Breath Rate, Emergency SOS, Gaurdian/ We Care remote monitoring, an iOS open API platform, Blood Sugar Monitoring and much much more and more to come. Spend a few days doing a side by side and let me know what you think.

I’ve seen Fitbits up to $330 and Garmens over $500 and they don’t touch the HELO LX in health monitoring value. Doctors and pharmacists are actually impressed by the technology and are recommending it.

The HELO LX will soon have its own medical division that will allow it to be listed as a medical device and be purchased thru insurance programs.

Oz would you do me a favor? Google me just one device besides the HeloLX that will provide all the above features I mentioned earlier. Or will I have to go buy 3 or 4 bands to get all that technology on my arm.

If you happened to find one will they pay me a commission for sharing it with some of my friends and family?

Robert: If you happened to find one will they pay me a commission for sharing it with some of my friends and family?

Therein lies your problem.

This isn’t about “YOU”.

This is about normal, everyday people who are seeking a legitimate opportunity to make money without becoming involved with a company attempting to sell overpriced, overhyped merchandise AND using a pyramid scheme business model.

Oz I call Bull___ on Alibaba. What’s the accuracy on a $2 or even a $26 device. I looked at alibaba.com and did not see the device you are talking about. I saw several that did not even come close. (Ozedit: Offtopic derail attempt removed)

Why are you hung up on MLM? I’ve got a small business with WGN. I don’t have to do anything if I don’t want. But, if I do they pay me a commission for a sale.

If I show a few people what I’m doin and they want to create some part time income, help them get started and trained WGN will pay me a commission because I’m helping create a sales organization.

They are not paying the big advertising conglomerates. I mean there is nothing hidden. I’ve agreed to the terms. We have a great product that will help people. Nobody is forcing them to buy. If they see the value in it they buy it.

There are millions of people in the world that like the newest and shiniest new technology. I don’t think putting them all on the shelf at Walmart or Best Buy is always the best option.

This is a direct sales person to person sales company with the backing of a multi million $ company who is partnered up with Toshiba and several other giants in the industry.

Littleroundman,
I am one of those people looking for a good part time opportunity outside of my traditional work. I don’t consider my Helo over priced.

I knew what it cost when I bought it. It does what they said it would do. I wear it 24/7 with all my vitals downloaded every 90 minutes. It’s tied into my wife’s phone and she mine.

I’ve shown it to about 15 people of which 8 bought it. I made some money our money back and more. There are no unhappy customers. All are satisfied and some have chosen to share it. Where’s the harm in that?

I’ve spent more time on this blog than I did working today and made 2 family pack sales. I asked Oz but I didn’t see a response. (Ozedit: No requests for personal income advice please.)

Well guys I’m wearing a Helo and I went to the VA to get a check up. I have high blood pressure. I checked my heart rate, breath rate, blood pressure and ECG with a doctor and a nurse and their clinical devises. My results were almost identical.

Do y’all get clinical lab and research reports when you buy a Fitbit or Apple Watch? Which university or lab did the study?

Like I said I’m not required to sell anything. You know they never thought Howard Hughes would ever get the Spruce Goose in the air or ever put a man on the moon. But, it happened.

Robert: I am one of those people looking for a good part time opportunity outside of my traditional work.

O.K. then, I’ll rephrase:

This isn’t about “YOU”

This is about normal, everyday people who are seeking a legitimate opportunity to make money without becoming involved with a company attempting to sell overpriced, overhyped merchandise AND using a pyramid scheme business model, or who aren’t blinded by their own greed enough to listen to those who do know what they’re talking about and can recognize pyramid schemes with overhyped, overpriced products when they see them.

In fact, seeing as you asked, I would be very careful selling products which can have a detrimental effect on your customers’ health based on the sales hype of your upline.

Entry level of World GN and preluide to Powerclouds scam. Affiliates made initial “investment” and after that they were paid for their own mobile traffic (accompanied with injected advertisement) + for building structure of other affiliates (recruiting).

Collapsed before the most of affiliates got the initial investment back.

Poweclouds

Ran under World GN love mark.

Leasback (Investment) into solar panels. Share of revenue (+ MLM commissions) generated by production of energy in power stations “owned” and built by World (and partner companies).

Collapsed before maturity of investment. Only 4 units were built (intead of 20), promised revenue was higher than realistic production gain of solar panel.

Reselling World phones, tablets + VoIP call

Additional part of World GN. Possible commissions on reselling noname “World branded” Chinese phones and tables (hardware was heavily overpriced). Second generation of phone was a real crap.

Lumina Glasses

Similar situation as with World Phones and tablets… promised commissions on reselling noname VR gadget. Trouble was that many affiliates did not receive ordered gods.

Promoted by some nice and hype product photos and videos, no info usability of product from real customers.

I am looking right now at the World Global Network opportunity. I am going back and forth if I should do this or not. The person who is trying to get me on board is pushing me to get the Premium Bundle package at $1,999.

I have now read negative reviews on both this site and ripoff report as well. Is there anyone out there that is doing this that is actually making money or is it a complete scam and throwing your money away???

Just the business Opportunity to buy the Premium bundle at $2,000. The placed an ad in Careerbuilder and I responded back. So is that good or bad or indifferent?

If this was you would you do this? I really wanted this to work, but I have been reading a lot of negative reviews. Very frustrating and so many scams and schemes out there.

How are these people not arrested or sued, they prey on the weak and desperate. Thank god I am neither, just trying to find a legitimate business opportunity. Any suggestions on good legitimate opportunities???

Affiliates recruiting affiliates and ignoring retail is bad. Try to get a sense of how many Helo bands this person sold to retail customers over the past few months versus how many affiliates they recruited.

MLM opportunities with little to no retail activity going on are operating as pyramid schemes.

Any suggestions on good legitimate opportunities???

So you can search for any MLM opportunity BehindMLM has revealed, but we don’t make specific and/or personal recommendations.

I know of 4 people that bought them for personal use only and have no desire to sell them as a business.

I also know the guy that sold it to us. He’s the salesman and we are the consumers. He presented the opportunity but we declined. However, we always have the option in the future if we change our mind.

There was no pressure. I thought of him like a door to door salesman with a good product, so I bought it. What’s the big deal?

I asked my guy about the eBay prices. He said that may be customers that bought the family pack that came with five and only needed 3 or 4. He said that was completely okay.

He also said that when you buy it off eBay it doesn’t come with a manufactures warranty just like if you bought a iPhone from an individual. He said that wasn’t a bad sign because it’s completely legit to help get some your money back.

I looked on eBay for myself and saw maybe 20 or so for sale. What’s funny is a lot of them are for sale at $264, $359, $424, $398, $199, $423, and so on.

With so few on eBay for sale how can that be a sign when it only represents less 1/1000th of 1% of the sales so far.

Why are y’all hatin on the Helo so much. I’ve seen on Facebook some pretty good personal stories and videos.

We don’t. We simply exercise far more skepticism than you are used to in your typical peer group.

The chances of such a device can exist without being tested, researched and published is nil. There is no proof that this device does what it says other than testimonials from people who are not qualified to evaluate it.

Yes that includes you and me. That’s why there are published peer reviewed scientific studies.

Also… You do get all the warranties and such when buying it on ebay.. Your buying from an affiliate and it comes with the same guarantee that you would get if you bought it from the company.

Whats funny is that you can buy other companies products that are IDENTICAL and save even more..

The whole think is a big scam…..typical… Sell a product at inflated prices..Hope the customers that pay dont do a Google Search…and if they do…claime “Well it is not the same and there is no this or that”….BULLSHIT…

As I have stated in the past.. MLM PRODUCTS are traditionally very good…but usually WAY OVERPRICED…which is why I could never be an affiliate with a company IF I KNEW THEY COULD go to Third Party Sites ( Ebay,Amazon, Etsy) and get the IDENTICAL PRODuct for WAY CHEAPER… makes ZERO SENSE to a consumer and alot to the MLM rep…. LOLO

Came across an ad for this on craigslist that was advertised as a over-glorified work from home opportunity.

Having done Avon and Herbalife before, I am no stranger to the MLM game. Looked into it on the website, and not gonna lie, got swept up into the promise of it.

Definitely wasn’t about to just hand my money over without some research by any means, but the potential was enticing.

The product itself, barring it does actually work, seems amazing, but when you put it into perspective that you could essentially buy a conglomeration of different products that do the same thing for a substantial fraction of the cost, it doesn’t seem so amazing after all.

All in all, I’m glad I came across this blog post before investing into something that seemed a bit too good to be true.

Fred: I also know the guy that sold it to us. He’s the salesman and we are the consumers. He presented the opportunity but we declined. However, we always have the option in the future if we change our mind.

Do you know what really happens when you attempt to get a refund? While I’ve read many stories from folks that

* Never received their products

or

* Received and immediately returned unopened

or

* Received, couldn’t get it to work and returned within a few days.

Each and every single one says world never issued the refund. The most common scenario was receiving confirmation of the refund but it remaining in perpetual “processing” status.

The only people that I’ve read having recovered any of their money back was from their credit card companies, not world, after filing disputes with their financial institutions. Not only that, but typically their “uplines”, whom were abundantly supportive up to that point, cut bait and disavow them.

Do you personally know anyone that’s tried to get a refund following the agreed upon terms of service?

So I just re-read the official Cancellation and Return policy document, CANCELLATION-AND-RETURN_INT.pdf, on their website (not sure if I’m allowed to post links, if so let me know and I’ll repost it, but it’s in the footer of their main page) and noticed this –

Refund

100% MoneyBack if issue not resolved in maximum 14 days via same mode.

However, if any member is unsatisfied with any service or products purchased, wor(l)d offers a 100% ten (14) day money-back guarantee (unless otherwise required by law) from the date the service is delivered.

Refunds, wherever applicable, will be processed by reversing the mode of payment.

For example, refunds of credit card transactions will be processed by reversing the payment to the credit card only.

So, the refund will be accepted if the payment was done with a system of payment available from us.

In this sense, the order generated with a voucher will be not refunded by the Company. The normal time for such refunds to reflect in your account is 12-15 working days.

Refund in case of product being shipped & cancellation post receipt of the shipment would be done after the confirmation of stock being received back at delivering centre.”

If you didn’t catch it:

“100% ten (14) day money-back guarantee (unless otherwise required by law) from the date the
service is delivered.”

As in – “100% ten (14) day money-back guarantee”

If not for all the shenanigans reported by those who’ve pursued refunds, I’d give them the benefit of the doubt and consider it a honest mistake. However, evidence precludes such a conclusion.

Fred:
I know of 4 people that bought them for personal use only and have no desire to sell them as a business.

I also know the guy that sold it to us. He’s the salesman and we are the consumers. He presented the opportunity but we declined. However, we always have the option in the future if we change our mind.

There was no pressure. I thought of him like a door to door salesman with a good product, so I bought it. What’s the big deal?

I just got word that they’re getting charged some automatic “Monthly Usage Fee”, like $63 bucks. From what I understand, purchases require membership, which I suspect is the catalyst for that fee.

Fred, Since you bought yours strictly as an end-user vs. reseller/affiliate/distributor, I’m curious if you’re still charged a monthly usage fee of any kind.

The HELO LX device by itself costs more than twice that of it’s competitor, the Fitbit Charge 2 (currently ~$130 at my local Sam’s club), which has no reoccurring cost.

Surely you don’t HAVE to continue paying EVERY MONTH just to be able to get readings from your HELO, right?

Since the HELO lacks a display, the only way to access its readings is through their app(s), so if they require a monthly fee for that, the device and all of it’s features are disabled and effectively non-functional once you opt-out of the monthly charge?

No I don’t pay a recurring fee. But if I wanted to invest in a business and start a my own sales organization with World it’s $59/mo.

That comes with a back office and marketing tools and a lot of other beneficial stuff to help you grow your business. For every month you pay they give 75 reward points.

I’ll have to get back to you on the rest of the details when my buddy gets back from a team event out in Vegas.

I’ve watched a couple live streams on FB of the event. I’m not sure how many were there, 2 or 3 thousand or so, but the speakers I listened to and their vision for where this company is and is going, it’s going viral.

One speaker was a doctor. My buddy is makin some serious money part time and havin a blast doin it. I don’t think that’s such a bad life style.

Since I’ve been on here reading the few complaints, I went to look at complaints on other smart watches and guess what they all have them too.

I also saw Fitbits, Garmens and others on eBay cheaper than retail. Are they overpriced as well when you are buying retail. And another thing these othe smart watch companies don’t offer a business opportunity.

What’s the actual # of complaints that you have read and counted? I really don’t think there’s that many. Business From Home has the Helo LX as the #1 product for 2017 along with being in top100 of all direct sales companies as stated by Direct Sales Association.

Heck I think I’m talking myself into relooking at the business side of Worl Global Network. Y’all have a nice day.

The HELO bracelet is history! Very soon it will disappear from the WGN’s digital store without any official explanation from the company!

The Fabio’s “astonishing” INFOLIO, the first smartphone that “reduces” the harmful effect of electrosmog is coming!! Please.. who the hell he think he is? Nikola Tesla II ? So…companies SAMSUNG, APPLE, etc., must “close” the factories!?

IGOR I’d like to know everything you know about the HELO and there plans because you are evidently in the know. Write s list if you don’t mind just so I know you’ve actually looked at all the benefits.

Have you ever actually put one on your wrist and put it to use or are you just jumping on the negative band wagon.

I’ve got one on my arm right now and it gives updates just like I set it up, every hour. I set it with a clinical monitor at the VA and it’s near perfect every time I check it against theirs.

Yeah they are coming out with the infolio phone also. But isn’t that what innovative companies do?

IBM didn’t stop with I think it was the TRS80 back in the 80’s. Apple didn’t stop with the 1,2,3,4,5,6 or even the iPhone 7. They’ve gotten into the fitness bands for some reason!

Does that mean they are gonna just drop everything and just peruse something else. Maybe, I don’t know. But I do know one thing you can’t buy some of the first generation Iphones because technology move on.

Im glad there’s some smart sob’s out there figuring this stuff out. It makes life a lot easier for everybody.

Please keep this in mind. The information you get from upline is not genuine as they make money OFF you. I make nothing from you and volunteer my time to try to stop scammers. Scamming veterans makes me even more irate. You are about to be suckered if you let them.

Char I appreciate that. But I’ve only spent the money on one device to see how I liked it and I do.

$320 plus shipping is not gonna cause anybody I know to go bankrupt. I mean my wife probably gets that much out of the washing machine or dryer every month.

I’m just watching my buddy do his thing with World and I have to admit, he’s doin well.

He’s not nor ever has been a scammer. He’s actually an electrical contractor with a part time business. Nobody forced him to do anything. He’s actually got some people in the health field in his business.

Are all MLM’s bad? And how do you know which ones are legit?

(Ozedit: Offtopic derail attempts removed)

I’m sure when they dig into it and after all the cards are dealt BFH will take appropriate action.

One was totally fictitious and non-existing (SPACE station with 5G “mobile” network).

Two of them did not cover orders made, but prepaid orders were not refunded (Power cells + Lumina glasses).

And none of them was present in the compensation plan long enough to achieve active balance as retailer (physical products) or get back investment (investment products and profit sharing from advertising).

Only way how to get into black numbers was… massive recruiting of the new affiliates. Does not sound it like pyramid scheme?

Poor Fred.. that is all I can say…. If you choose endorse a company whose owner has scammed people out of money before in the past (Powecells and Lumina Glasses…NEVER DELIVERED but paid for) then that is your choice.. Not for MOI!!

I’m not talkin out of my ass. I call BS on affiliate memberships as not being an investment. Anytime you put money up in hopes of gaining a future profit I would call that an investment. If you don’t invest, you don’t get the opportunity!

That’s not good enough. Primarily getting paid when you sell to recruited affiliates is a pyramid scheme in MLM (ref: Herbalife, Vemma).

The majority of sales need to be to retail customers. If an MLM company is primarily generating revenue from affiliates, regardless of what affiliates are spending the money on, that company is operating as a pyramid scheme.

That’s what we trying to tell you here. It sounds to me like you decide to ignore it… Your choice.

But Edison tried 1000 times. Steve Jobs failed and got kicked out of his own company.

Poor analogy and a kind of BS excuse to me.
Edison and Jobs suffered while struggling to invent and produce ingenious and unique products. Galdi repeatedly used (verified) Ponzi & pyramid scheme to get (himself) rich quickly. No suffering involved.

Galdi has no research centre – his (physical) products were merely dropshipped cheap China craps (if they were delivered to customers at all). Selection of Galdi’s product is follows the wave of popularity and currently used “buzzwords”.

All I know about world is a what is see in real time is on FB and the Internet and my friends that are happy with it. So far I can’t see anything wrong yet.

I saw the same for previous Galdi’s “products”:

Hundreds of happy people celebrating first Power cloud plant opening. Rants on FB with proves of “passive income” (affiliates were paid correctly within the first year after the launch or so…but they need 5 years to get their investment returned).

Conventions and conferences (=recruiting events) organised by local “leaders”.

Numerous post on FB promoting AdKash using “viral” videos (“Incredible – they are paid for using their phone!”).

All (or most) of these “happy” people were scammed in the end.

I think, better and more important analogy is here outlined than yours (with Jobs and Edison).

Are you guys wishing for failure or success. Maybe Fabia finally got teamed up with the right people and is moving in the right direction.

I wish all good to all good people (and that’s I dedicate my time to write this post to warn and protect them). Come on Fred – Fabio is a typical serial scammer.

Does he change his way of business operation and mindset? I guess no.

Why should he change himself? He is relatively “successful” with the things he does!
You mess with wrong people. There can be only two results: You win (by becoming one of the scammers and top recruiters). Or you loose (money, friends, reputation).

I just looked at the stock. It’s up to $20 per share and Toshiba is working with them. I pray you guys are wrong and so far as I can see you are.

I pray you to be right, but don’t give it a fair chance.
And please – could you send a link with a proof of Toshiba cooperation with Helo (World)? Or you ment only that World’s shares are exchanged on the same market (OTC Pink?) as the shares of Toshiba?

Fred:
Sterling I’m not trying endorsing per se. I’m just telling you from a personal observation what I see and know.

Yes, are endorsing. You do.

The people over here in my beck of the woods are pretty happy about the last year or so. And they look to be all in for future design upgrades and features.

People were basically happy for one or almost two years with Powerclouds, Telme, AdKash… Bait and switch strategy. You have to satisfy first victims and make them thing positively to “successfully” spread the scam and make it more “popular”.

Maybe it took those failures to get him in the right track.

Chance close to nil. Keep on hoping. You do not have a proof of his change.

Aren’t those complaining about the price missing a very important point, that the features this unit has FAR exceed anything else on the market.

I’m a doctor and I have another doctor friend in my office demoing a unit in the hopes of my joining as an affiliate. I must say I’m impressed with the unit.

My main motivation for obtaining and selling these units is the blood pressure measurement.

As any doctor knows getting your patient to regularly take their blood pressure is very difficult, yet a day to day pattern of blood pressure is crucial in understanding and treating high blood pressure.

Granted the device may not be medical grade, they have a disclaimer that results may vary greatly and are not clinically accurate, and I don’t think there is any research or clinical trials in measuring the effectiveness.

Anecdotally in my office I compared it to a manual BP and a nurse taken BP and it seemed quite accurate, so possibly it may be useful when averaged over time for a patient, especially if the alternative is having no readings at all.

On their radar supposedly is glucose monitoring, which would be huge if it happens. There is no non-invasive method of glucose monitoring yet so I take that with a huge grain of salt, but I know big hitters such as Apple and others are actively working on it and it’s only a matter of time.

One thing I would like to see added is Heart Rate Variability, I’ve found this very useful in monitoring chronic fatigue patients and even personally in knowing when to work out.

My last concern is if the MLM pyramid does collapse, what does that do with the patient’s data, both past and future. Will they have a way to store their data?

More importantly will they be able to monitor their data in the future without the $20 monthly membership? If not then this becomes a paperweight very quickly.

I have been trialling a Helo LX (a friend signed up and bought the family pack). Its a nice product (the packaging is beautiful) and the readings for blood pressure do not seem to far away from readings from other monitors.

It reads heart rate, breath rate, mood and energy. But that is IT. No blood sugar or blood alcohol readings, which really would make it unique.

These are promised! It remains to be seen if these apps appear, which may justify the price level.

But, it is clear there are similar and much cheaper alternatives and the Helo starts to look like a slightly modified Chinese product available on drop shipping.

The monthly $59 payment is not linked to the functionality of the Helo; it variously insurance, ability to enter a business and a “savings plan” where the $59 can be turned into $69 of product. (I think the numbers are right).

My friends upline appears to have given up and no support given.

There is a FB based group called UCan2 which is doing its hardest to encourage as many people as possible to participate in webinars and various other activities with a view to signing them up. There seems to be little interest in actually promoting the products and it is clear that they are not interested.

Like all previous World products there is much emphasis on silly titles like President. These people like to go off to Bangkok for a one day conference with other Presidents.

However, whilst 2 members of UCan2 are Presidents, they have admitted that it is actually 4 of them aggregating their sales/sign ups in order to achieve a President status for two of them.

World seems to allow two partners to become Presidents. So the reality is that to achieve President status quickly, it needs to input of 4 people not just one. Misleading?

One of the more louder of the UCan2 team did not even have any products to sell (a very proud moment unwrapping the Helo’s when they finally turned up) suggesting that their “success” is not actually down to selling any products.

It’s not actually possible to find HQ of World. Even the stock market listing details are vague. The company is quoted on an OTC market not the Nasdaq as has been suggested by Golden Couple Chad and Nattida (former Organo Gold purveyors).

As noted previously, alleged scammers such as the Islam Brothers have appeared as Presidents – remarkably fast! – you are known by the company you keep.

In conclusion, whilst the Helo product is nice but not unique, it is overpriced unless the new features come online soon. World is clearly about hyping the product(s) and then working with other well known MLM players to entice others in with the promise of a business opportunity that will give them a millionaire lifestyle.

The products are not being shipped within a reasonable time frame and World remains an opaque company.

There is no monthly fee for me. I have my Helo set up to give me updates every hour. I also have the SOS signaling if I’m in trouble or if any of my readings such as BP or Heart Rate gets to high or low it will signal my wife and brother.

There is another feature that’s called the Gaurdian which allows up to 20 people to follow your readings in real time from anywhere in the world.

As explained to me, if you had say an elderly parent that was living alone and you just wanted to checkin on them and their vitals to see how they are. You could do that from anywhere with your phone.

It allows you to follow be followed. That service is $12 per month for your whole membership. Say you bought a family pack, it would cover all Helos in that subscription.

Granted the device may not be medical grade, they have a disclaimer that results may vary greatly and are not clinically accurate, and I don’t think there is any research or clinical trials in measuring the effectiveness.

I compared it to a manual BP and a nurse taken BP and it seemed quite accurate, so possibly it may be useful when averaged over time for a patient, especially if the alternative is having no readings at all.

Surely as a doctor you’d be wary of relying on readings from a non medical grade device? If you screw something up the liability is on you.

Dang you wrote a book. Anyway you can google Toshiba World Global Network and get plenty of 3rd party articles explaining the relationship between the two companies. Not sure with all you know about World why you couldn’t find that.

The Wallstreet Journal wrote a good article and also illustrated Worlds stock history and momentum.

Google WMRT Stock Price and BAMMM there it is $23.55 today. And yes it’s listed on the US OTC market. So are the 10000 securities on their markets are traded through SEC registered OCT Link ATS.

I’m pretty sure Toshiba is Japanese so the reference you made to the cheap drop ship from China is not a credible accusation.

I just found out that World is having the largest webinar in network marketing industry at 8:00 tonight. Over 50000 from all over the world have registered.

I’m gonna watch to see what it’s all about. I’ll report back and give you my perspective on it for you and anyone that would be interested.

Maybe Oz won’t delete it for being off topic. Guess what my Helo is still on my arm doing exactly what I bought it for.

Just watched the live stream of World. It had several introductions of top money earner that gave a short story of why World.

Most of them stated they weren’t looking for anything but when they saw the product and what it had to offer they got on board. For the most part they knew with all the benefits of the Helo, that it was a no brainier.

Then it went into the presentation of what the Helo is and its benefits, talked with the concept designer for the Apple IPhone and watch and also a guy named Taylor Worre.

Talked about Fabio and several good things that he’s accomplished that no one has mentioned on this site and then the business opportunity.

Chad and his wife put on the webinar and their last request was to get back to who ever invited you to get back to them with just a simple answer of your interest level.

A for very intested from both a product and business opportunity, B for interested from just a product only standpoint and C for no interest at all.

I had seen a presentation on video before I bought mine but this was more like a slide presentation with breaks to bring guest on to tell their own short story.

All in all very informative. I think I’m gonna text my buddy and let him know I watched. He shared the live stream info on FB and don’t even know I watched.

After hearing some of what world has done for them in just a few months I’m at an A.

Under Intellectual Property –
“ We do not currently have any patents or patent applications in process. Any future patent applications with respect to our technology may not be granted, and, if granted, patents may be challenged or invalidated.In addition, issued patents may not provide us with any competitive advantages and may be challenged by third parties.”

Under Revenue Recognition –

” Additionally, on October 1, 2016, the Company introduced a licensing revenue model, where WRMT provides its Life Sensing Technology, branding and device designs to approved manufacturers who take orders directly from distributors and pay WRMT a fee per Helo unit shipped .”

“Since October 1, 2016, the Company derives Under the current agreement, the preferred Helo manufacturer pays WRMT a once-off, non-refundable fee of four dollars ($4.00) per Helo Classic and five dollars ($5.00) per Helo LX shipped from its manufacturing facility ”

TL;DR –

HELO is:

Made in China,

Shipped from China,

Soon to compete with it’s Chinese Manufacturer who’s making and marketing their own improved versions,

Not patented nor are any patent applications in process,

Being licensed to third parties with World increasingly separating itself from the process.

There’s another gem hidden in the report… It says that in April 2017 they signed an agreement to incorporate a certain company’s blood alcohol sensor. That means such a sensor may be in the NEXT version of HELO band… and basically admits there is no such thing in the current version.

Fred:
…Google Toshiba World Global Network and get plenty of 3rd party articles explaining the relationship between the two companies. Not sure with all you know about World why you couldn’t find that.

I did not bother to search for this (based on previous experience with “magic” Wor(l)d products). But – thanks you for the hint, I did it now.

Yes, it is press release and it smells like press release. Impressive? No.

But wait… identical press releases (containing same sentences and even whole paragraphps) are published elsewhere and sourced from World Media & Technology Corp – mind you: World Media = marketing branch of World.

Cui bono? Who profits more from this press release? Definitely World, not Toshiba. How this press release (with 99% probability prepared by World Media) appears on Toshiba web site? I am not sure.

The press release is in fact innocent and seems to be true (message: Toshiba produces special processor which are – besides other things – also used in Helo fitness bands)… so did World bribe someone from Toshiba to publish this? Or had World a friendly and cooperating webmaster in Toshiba – who knows?

But it’s not the first time I see some sneaky company building its reputation this way. Specifically – World had positive reviews of their past products (in fact: paid press releases) published in Wall Street Journal and other media. They know how to buy publicity.

Fred:I’m pretty sure Toshiba is Japanese so the reference you made to the cheap drop ship from China is not a credible accusation.

OK, Fred. Let’s say… Toshiba produces TZ1000 chips which are used in Helo bands – which are manufactured and dropshipped from China.

Product purchase via Wor(l)d is for $319, small series (bypassing World) can be be for $14 – $31 a piece.

Was I wrong when I’ve said “World’s (physical) products were merely dropshipped cheap China craps”?

It was true for phones, tablets, routers, remote keyboards, glasses… I referred to the past products, but it seems to to be true again for Helo band.

My apology and exception for the “crap” – I cannot tell if Helo is a crap, it seems to have a quite good reputation and reviews… but wait again… I’ve heard these positive testimonials from mouths of World affiliates only (including you), so I cannot take it too much seriously.

Especially when I see that many of your statements are exaggerated and false (lies).

FortySixAndTwo: I’m interested in finding out if it uses the same Toshiba TZ1000 chips as the HELO.

Toshiba TZ1000 family of chips, aka the ApP Lite ™ family, is not a magic ECG chip. It’s just an ARM Cortex M4F CPU with integrated features like BT and multiple sensor buses designed for wearables. And it was launched at the end of 2014. It’s hardly new.

Even Toshiba didn’t bother naming devices using this chip. The only one who tried to latch onto Toshiba’s name was Worldgn, so much so a lot of the Worldgn reps actually assumed the device was made by Toshiba when it’s only the CPU inside. You can assume that a good chunk of cheap Chinese fitness bands use the chip too.

Mr. Czech:
For the record and Fred – I did not say Helo band is bad product “per se”

Nor did I. Let me clarify the two scenarios:

#1 A decent product can be sold via, VIA MLMing. MLMing is a faulty, inefficient method which requires the customer to typicallly overpay or over buy. They use the overpayment as Ponzi money. Real customers find product cheaper, affiliates can’t retail it, and said affiliate participates in a recruiting pyramid scheme and loses. (A)

#2 A useless product that can’t sell normally on shelves is used by MLMers as their pseudo product to mask the Ponzi scheme.

@Fred As a product, the Helo is a nice product (I have a Helo LX) but it is way overpriced and as it is possible to buy a similar type of product and indeed one with more features for a fraction of the Helo retail price, then the conclusion has to be that selling Helos at this price level is not sustainable.

However, World is not really interested in the sale of Helos – its business is that of growing a network of sellers who buy the product, at its inflated price, in order to be able to sign up more people who sign up more people…etc.

If you were really interested in a health monitor, why would you pay up to 10x the price of a comparable product?

Check out this screenshot and the slide behind Fabio Galdi from Bangkok last month detailing what’s “coming soon” to the HELO LX – nolink://imgur.com/a/FvST1

Joining the line up of Glucose, Alcohol and Mosquito Shield are “Fertility Prediction” and “Flue Detection”.

I heard the HELO once briefly performed “Bovine Fecal Excrement Detection” but that feature was quickly removed via emergency firmware patch due to all units instantaneously maxing out CPU utilization.

OK… So that last part might not be true.

Also, as I previously mentioned, and have since confirmed via audio of the video referenced above, he’s now claiming to have filed US patent application for the Glucose Measurement stuff, which is contraindicated by their OTC filing a week or so afterwards.

I’ve never heard anything about bovine fecal stuff but, I have the other measurements. I’m not up on the OTC reports. I’m sure it will all be clarified at some point in the near future if it’s an issue.

“-yust wait untill (insert random future date) when the company (insert random event) it will prove your all wrong.

are classic ponzi/pyramid looser arguments.

if you look around at the other pyramids scheems listed on behindmlm you will come across them from other fooled IMA/ponzipimps/affiliates in the comment section.

its more our less the same in other forums/blogs where freuds like helo/world gets disscused. we never se these fooled afiliates back when the pyramid colapses.

so dont overcomplicate/overthink what you hear and read. dont get bogd down i the trivia (like there is an ap. it has magical propertis. bill gates have 4 on each wrist and one on his ankle and so on.)

The Around + as noted above does everything and more than a Helo does, which is hardly surprising as it is essentially a Helo but at a somewhat lower price.

Comparing it with an IPhone is not relevant as you cannot go and buy an iPhone for a fraction of the price that Apple sells them for.

But the issue is World is not about the products, it’s about building the pyramid. Let’s not fool ourselves, people sign up to pyramid sellers to make money from signing up other people not selling the products. And it’s often the same people who move from one product to another be it coffee, one coin, beauty products, it doesn’t matter.

But there is nothing wrong with the MLM system intrinsically; James Dyson used an MLM company to help sell his early vacuum cleaners.

From a potential marketers’ point of view, it’s all too easy to get caught up in “Freds” defense of the Helo itself and to forget Oz’ comments in his original article.

This begs the question: Who is going to buy Wor(l)d International’s seemingly overpriced products?

This brings us back to Wor(l)d International’s MLM opportunity being marketed, with the products merely an attempt to legitimize pyramid recruitment.

Anyone attempting to sell a Helo via MLM, is competing against multi billion dollar companies with multi million dollar advertising budgets whose products already have brand recognition AND no name (usually) Chinese companies with similar, if not identical products at a much lower price point both types freely available, both online and in retail stores, providing instant gratification for those unwilling to wait for delivery.

Throw in the fact pyramid selling is illegal for a reason – it doesn’t work for the vast majority of participants and the dubious history of the founder /s then any legitimate marketer and / or potential recruit looking to join Wor(l)d International will be left asking why anyone would bother, thus removing the income potential of recruitment for the “Freds” of this world.

My comment above got cut off (by me by mistake). To finish: This company has all the marks of a pump and dump. OTC stock. Pink sheets! Stock was even put on stock watch for a while in January. Financials sketchy and always posted very late.

As for the “patent pending” claim this is likely pure BS. Their own recent and late financials with the SEC say there are no patents or applications filed and there is a far distance between a patent application filed and a pending patent. So this is just another baseless claim.

I spoke to two of the leaders in the MLM part of this company and neither had bothered to read the financials.

Check out the financials and how little is spend on R&D (note also patents are expensive). Note how many shares are outstanding. A ridiculous amount for a company like this.

The watch may work but let’s see if they win the Nobel Prize with their claims of a coming device to measure blood glucose, blood alcohol and repelling mosquitos (the latter likely being the completely discredited use of ultrasonic sound waves).

This company is a scam and MLMers from other MLM companies which are foundering are all flocking to it.

On a side note I’m still waiting on the make and model of a health monitoring band to compare with Helo.

I’m really curious and I don’t want to spend hours looking thru different sites and specs just to come up empty handed.

@Fred –

Hopefully the links provided to the Around, Around+ and QT-B02 bands in recent posts are what you’re looking for. The Around, Around+, QT-B02 and HELO devices are all made by the same company (QTI) in the same factory in Shenzhen China.

You’ll find the Around, Around+ and QT-B02 device’s officially published features not only contain all those of the HELO LX as officially acknowledged and published on Worldgn.com (“website.worldgn.com/products/helo/helo-lx-features/” AND “website.worldgn.com/products/helo/helo-lx-specs/”), but several more, such as a built in display in the case of the Around+ and QT-B02 devices.

Speaking of officially published features and specs, while I’ve seen plenty of unofficial marketing, i.e. created and disseminated by third parties, the company’s official HELO LX site acknowledges only THREE (3) “Hearth [sic] Rate, Breath Rate, Mood and Fatigue”

I am surprised with the lack of any independent reviews of this company or its product Helo. I can only figure they are not on anyone’s radar yet. There are plenty of really amateurish youtube MLM videos but really nothing else.

I would never invest in a company with such a poor record and not standing by its products. A lot of claims are being made of great (and scientifically breakthrough) innovations coming soon by a company which spends very little on R&D, which licenses its main component from Toshiba and which has a company in China do its marketing.

For a world headquarters in Florida it also appears to have very few employees and my guess is that it is a small office if that. But don’t try to tell any MLMers any of this – they think they are going to get rich and just will not listen.

The company is also fond of corporate hell games. Fabio Galdi resigned earlier as CEO and is now merely a majority shareholder, but he’s holding onto a different World company (incorporated in Barbados, if what I remember from the SEC report was correct) and they have some complex cluster-f*** arrangement in place.

Add to the fact that the WRMT claimed ZERO product sales in 2016 (all 500K in revenue are from “licensing” as per SEC report), really makes you wonder how many HELO bands did they “sell”? Or did they disguise their revenue under a DIFFERENT company’s name?

I was also surprised by the lack of critical content out there, especially considering the amount of people that have been burned from the legacy schemes like powerclouds, space crap, lumina, etc.

From what I can tell, most victims are either

a) too embarrassed they fell for it

b) fear jeopardizing relationships with their up/downlines, which are usually close family and friends

c) fear of legal retaliation

d) still hold a tiny glimmer of hope that they might manage to recover at least a tiny bit of their money and remain silent for fear of absolutely never getting anything back

As for the last two, consider this from world’s 03_POLICIES_PROCEDURES_USA.pdf :

4.3 Non-disparagement

“…members must not disparage, demean, or make negative remarks about WOR(l)D, other WOR(l)D members, WOR(l)D’s Products/Services, the Compensation Plan, or WOR(l)D’s Directors, Officers, or Employees.”

8.1 Disciplinary Sanctions

“…any act or omission by an member that, in the sole discretion of the Company may damage its reputation or goodwill, may result, at WOR(l)D’s discretion, in one or more of the following corrective measures…

• Imposition of a fine, which may be withheld from Bonuses and Commissions

• Loss of rights to one or more Bonus or Commission payments

• WOR(l)D may withhold from an member all or part of the member’s Bonuses and Commissions during the period that WOR(l)D is investigating any conduct allegedly in violation of the Agreement. If an member’s business is canceled for disciplinary reasons, the member will not be entitled to recover any Commissions withheld during the investigation period

• Suspension of the individual’s member Agreement for one or more pay periods • Involuntary termination of the offender’s member Agreement

• Any other measure expressly allowed within any provision of the Agreement or which WOR(l)D deems practicable to implement and appropriate to equitably resolve injuries caused partially or exclusively by the member’s policy violation or contractual breach

• In situations deemed appropriate by WOR(l)D, the Company may institute legal proceedings for monetary and/or equitable relief.”

Thanks, FortySixAndTwo. I had not seen this agreement language. It is common for MLM companies to have such draconian measures and restrictions but I think the “sole discretion” power that they retain even goes a bit beyond the pale.

As to lack of critical content so far, there are a couple additional factors:

1. Helo is still quite new and has not gone through its cycle yet (I bet the company will fall on its face on customer service for instance); and

2. The wonderful life changing claims the company is promising are still a moving target (they can keep delaying these promises for awhile to keep folks on the hook).

I mean, really … if they develop what they say they are going to come out with on their extremely limited R&D budget (and these products would truly be worthy of a Noble Prize), for a product they don’t even own the internal invention on … then this company will be greater than Apple.

How likely is that? Especially coming from a pink sheet OTC company with a history of failed products.

But the ability of many a person to continue to believe in the face of contrary facts when he is promised riches is boundless.

Fred:
I have. I show friends all the time and tell them where I got it. A few have some haven’t. Everybody is different with different needs and wants. It doesn’t bother one way or the other if they buy or not. I just pass along the information and they decide.

But then do you tell those people that they can save $150 and get a Helo on Ebay? Or a different brand and save even more?

Yes, I am contradicting what I said earlier on purpose about sending your buddy customers. I know I wouldn’t feel right ripping off my friends if I could save them a buck. See the conundrum?

It’s a no win with MLMing and makes parties, funerals, and family reunions very awkward for everyone.

I’ve looked at the Alibaba Qt-B02. While there are several items that are comparable there are still a few things the Helo offers that the Qt doesn’t.

Alibaba is just an e-commerce platform that sells products just like Amazon and EBay does. Quality Technologies actually assembles the Qt. So I’m not sure about all the R&D.

I did however see an article about Quality and World forming a partnership. The CEO of Quality had expressed all good things about world and they very happy with the MLM model and bringing over 3 million Helos and 1 million smart phones to the market.

Now I don’t know the inter workings of these deals and don’t pretend you do. But, you have promoted Alibaba and indirectly Quality.

Well turns out Quality is high up on MLM Toshiba unveiled the Helo at the 2017 CES convention.

The Helo offers an open api platform, its own APP store, incoming upgrades & upgradable firmware, WeCare and Gaurdian functions, Germanium and Himalayan salt stones, rewards program with insurance program and of course the reason you have this blog “the money making opportunity” which they do not guarantee income.

I read their income disclosure and it clearly states that some will make “$0”. I’m sure there is other stuff I’ve missed or don’t know about yet. But, it’s Friday and I’m ready to go start celebrating July 4th weekend. (Ozedit: Offtopic derail attempts removed)

Valuable source of information + rankings! The rankings where the business winners are voted by whom? Affiliates of the business itself. Sounds to me like the winner is the one with widest and most loyal affiliate base.

P.S.
Wor(l)d did it before with the project of solar panels – Power Clouds. They’ve got Solar Power Award in 2015. Victory thanks to votes coming from affiliates.

Hello: Where are all the technology journalist articles and youtube videos from the invite only presentation of the new Helo band hosted by Toshiba at CES 2017?

For the record, World did not buy a booth there. As for Toshiba, Toshiba Semiconductor and Storage have a suite over at WestGate resort, NOT in CES itself. There is no record of what was shown “off-site”.

Fred: there are still a few things the Helo offers that the Qt doesn’t.

The Helo offers an open (1) api platform, (2) its own APP store, (3) incoming upgrades & (4) upgradable firmware, (5) WeCare and Gaurdian functions, (6) Germanium and Himalayan salt stones, (7) rewards program with insurance program and of course the reason you have this blog (8) “the money making opportunity” which they do not guarantee income.

2) App store has a total of SEVEN apps in it. TOTAL, that’s including its own HELO app and the sample blood oximeter app, and the HeloAppStore FB page has only 118 followers.

3) The so-called open API is filled with mistakes like “examble” (yes, that’s exactly how it’s spelled) and is purely a Bluetooth access API. The link to LifeLog API goes nowhere.

4) ANY device nowadays has upgradeable firmware. If you’re hoping for new features like the promised blood sugar and blood alcohol, you’ll have to wait for the next PHYSICAL version of the HELO, as there are no such sensors onboard.

5) AROUND has the “SOS Alert function”, same thing, as pointed out before.

6) So you count the ability to clip a mineral to your watchband a “feature”? When it can be done to anything watch band?

7) “Rewards program and insurance program” So you can insure something that costs 10X it should be?

Tom: How do y’all know which one is accurate? The cheaper version seams like a Cracker Jack price. How can they offer with that much technology so cheap?

Or perhaps, you’re just looking at it the wrong way: why is HELO so f***ing expensive yet offering so little compared to existing wearable companies like Fitbit, Jawbone, and even Microsoft? Heck, HELO doesn’t even have a display!

So, I’m standing in my local newsagent this morning and notice a display board next to the counter filled with Chinese made “no name” brand products, such as SD cards, USB cables and storage devices, mobile phone covers,chargers, earpieces etc, and AUD $36 Fitness bands labelled as having the same features as the Helo.

THAT is the market in which you’ll be competing, “Fred” so forget about comparing the Helo with Fitbit, Jawbone or any of the established brands or models.

Throw in a highly suspect compensation plan and you’ll be needing every bit of luck you can muster if you think your future lies with Wor(l)d International.

I see your rely boged down in the in the details (pyramid scheme “details” like, it has an app, Bill Clinton has 5, It has magic properities, The LA lakers enduorse it, the king of Sudan is realy intrested).

Omg, I was just going to post that on the Bob Wood Nexxus thread as he is the antithesis of Ockham’s, and such a scammer, but I fell asleep. This guy is the master of misdirection. You should read his posts. Anyway,

Helo=MLMing

(I also posted this on a different thread I think. I’ll repost) MLMing is something that you have to “do”, a model that is followed, and the “product” is in a supportive role – very important that Fred comprehend.

It’s like “stabbing” and then getting bogged down on the details of brand of knife, metal content, and cost. In the end, the guy has a hole in him and he’s bleeding to death. For context, Fred needs to google stabbing, not knives.

I know I am venturing a little in the off topic range. But I wanted to clarify for Fred and others the economics of a high end retailer. Apple, IBM, etc all have a complex retail and wholesale structure. They make their money by building something for less then they sell it.

If World blah blah, had you buy your “health tracker”, which is still a fledgling market, for like 75 bucks, and you got to sell it for whatever, then maybe that would be a plan. And they paid you when your sales exceeded X number of dollars.

As a former Amway guy. World is still producing it for hardly anything, selling it to you at an inflated price, then inviting you to sell it at the same price. Do you not get how the only ones that really make money is world?

HELO sensor is a very high technology expert in read “signals”. When you wear HELO, it reads the signals from your body that the software can convert into measurements.

When you don’t wear it, it still reads something literally from the air, and the software tries to translate this into signals.

We also developed a solution with which HELO understands when somebody is wearing the wellness band or not so it didn’t read the air, but we found that this software cause a non-read of dark or tattooed skin.

To preserve a wide range of skin measurements, we prefer that the sensor keeps this sensibility and HELO can switched off if not in use.

We are working to add a function that detects the wrist without losing the full functionality on dark or tattooed skin.

There was a post highlighting the World/Helo as top MLM product as expressed in a recent poll. Readers may be interested in a FB post urging all followers to cheat:

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TODAY IS THE LAST DAY!!! We CANNOT BE SURPRISED with a loss!!!!! THEY ARE CATCHING UP and just 30 away from beating us!!! VOTE NOW on ALL OF YOUR DEVICES and let everyone know to do the SAME!!!! Now now NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We know for a FACT we have the best product I. The world. Now let’s let the WORLD know!!!!

Say you Voted once you did!!!!!! Say you voted TWICE once you did as well. Basically use the phones of all of your family. Come on FAM!!!! Let’s do this!!!!
TAG YOUR WHOLE TEAM!!!

C&N are way more than just sanctioned cheerleaders, for all intents and purposes, they’re World employees.

Nattida personally produces nearly all of world’s social media propaganda and has done so for years.

She posts intimate videos of herself driving World’s new mouthpiece Taylor Worre between FB live broadcasts at corp offices and even selfies of her and Chad’s double dates with Fabio Galdi and his wife at dinner.

She published fake product hype videos from world corp offices, including one last year of her unveiling the supposed second generation double screened infolio which was clearly nothing more than a piece of plastic.

The latest appears to be a claim that a Press Release was issued that the company is going to Nasdaq.

I can find no such official press release but only a claim on the company blog. (This company appears to be artful in making untrue and grandiose claims through affiliates and third parties – this is often done to avoid legal liability.)

Given the requirements and vast differences between a major exchange like Nasdaq and the OTC (and pink sheets at that – even after a thirty day death skull stock watch was placed!), I believe it extremely unlikely that WRMT will be allowed on Nasdaq itself by Nasdaq’s rules and review requirements. Its financials, as lacking in detail and always late in posting, frankly just stink.

It would have to pull of something like a reverse merger with a listed failing company. And the claims of products to come from this company are simply for the naive and the gullible.

They don’t own the technology and their R&D budget is tiny to what it would take to come up with products they claim are coming in the fourth quarter.

What this really is, is a scam pump and dump married to a classic pyramid scheme compensation plan with a lot of people taking advantage of a lot more people. This company is a short term MLM wet dream.

As of May 12, 2017, Fabio Galdi resigned as World Media & Technology Corp.’s (the Registrant’s) Chief Executive Officer, President, Chairman of the Board and Corporate Secretary, but remains the Registrant’s majority shareholder.

His resignation was not as a result of any disagreements with the Registrant.

Also as of May 12, 2017, Alfonso Galdi resigned as the Registrant’s Chief Financial Officer and as a member of the Board of Directors. His resignation was not a result of any disagreements with the Registrant.

As of May 12, 2017 and simultaneously with Mr. Fabio Galdi’s and Mr. Alfonso Galdi’s resignations, Mr. Sean McVeigh was named the Registrant’s Chief Executive Officer,

Also as of May 12, 2017, Mr. Alessandro Senatore was named the Registrant’s Chief Technology Officer.

Mr. Alessandro Senatore also remains a member of the Registrant’s Board of Directors.

otcmarkets.com/financialReportViewer?symbol=WRMT&id=171926

To achieve these goals and create significant value for WRMT, Fabio Galdi as agreed to dedicate himself to driving Helo sales as CEO and Chairman of WorldGN. Sean McVeigh, will take over as WRMT’s CEO to deliver on WRMT’s objectives.

WorldGN could be World Global Network which does not appear to be any legally constituted body ( I stand to be corrected) and there is clearly deliberate aim to suggest that WorldGN is the same as WRMT.

From what I gather so far, it seems Fabio Galdi and Sean McVeigh are the principles in an ever evolving PONZI, with them spinning off these various business entities, shuffling capital, stocks, controlling interests, debt, etc between them.

WOW. Unbelievable. I (naively) bought into this deal early in the year because of my boss – who actually made a lot of money in Visalus – which I immediately identified as crap when he approached me with it years ago. So I bought a Helo – and man is that an overpriced piece of crap.

You HAVE to have your smartphone next to you the whole time for it to work – and not only that – you have to have your smartphone connected to even see if the damn thing is on or charged-up; the bluetooth connection constantly failed – and without being connected to your smartphone – you can’t tell if it’s because the charge went out or something else.

You can’t use the Helo app and the Heka app at the same time (the Heka app is the one that measures BP) – and the only way I could find that out was on a blog.

It takes measurements when not on my wrist – that to me is a HUGE red flag and unacceptable.

The fact that it does not have any display info at all and can’t work without a smartphone is just clumsy and annoying. the thing is not comfortable to wear and the germanium stones are hocus-pocus.

The thing is marketed with the promises of “what’s coming” – blood glucose, blood oxygen, blood alcohol, etc. – Not coming from that device, I can assure you.

The $59 per month enables you to monitor multiple family members, participate in the commission plan, and get free upgrades and replacements – but now I know that – along with the high cost of the device – are what pays the commissions in the structure. I promptly cancelled.

I’ve been lurking in the secret FB group and following all of this heavily – and the brainwashing and gullibility factor is astounding (okay – I’m somewhat guilty since I bought into it – but I had extra cash at the moment and said “why not?”).

The big Vegas party and the weekly FB “training/motivation” sessions – it’s all to keep selling each other in the organization how wonderful the technology is and how this is groundbreaking ground-level opportunity stuff.

This all reinforces what I’ve thought all along – MLM is a cult – there’s no better way to describe it. A CULT.

It’s really frightening and scary. But – what’s entertaining is watching this thing collapse and come tumbling down – just as expected – and to see all the people suckered into it eat crow when you think to yourself “See – I told you so”.

Sometimes when reporting the earlier days of a product / company, we need to show patience’s, and with a little reassure you would find that the Helo is the 4 biggest selling Wearable technology wrist band 2017.

It’s not a Fit monitor but an health monitor keep your eyes and ears open on this product and in if you’re out in the USA I would recommend looking at the company shares WRMT … This company is going places….

Yes of course I’m a proud WGN business partner…

News clip from the Todays show on Wednesday 26th July: youtube.com/watch?v=WeMroirqEhI&t=5s

I hate to break it to you Fitz, but Wor(l)d International affiliates buying airtime to run Helo advertisements on TV doesn’t negate the concerns raised in this review. Neither does any of the marketing spiel you posted either.

That TV spot is the equivalent of a spammy press release with affiliate ref link.

re the “sales figures” as reported by Wor(l)d, it is not clear the source of any of the figures, not least that Wor(l)d itself has not made any formal announcements since last year. Also, Apple was not included on the list.

It seems there’s a lot of uneducated people on here that don’t know the difference between an illegal pyramid scheme and a legal and completely legitimate network marketing company. Pyramid schemes do not have products to sell, network marketing companies do.

As for the Helo being overpriced, people pay that much and more for a Fitbit or Apple watch that don’t have half the features of the Helo.

Can you monitor your loved ones with them or receive an alert if they are in danger? No. Do they pay you to wear them. No. Do they have their own app store? No. Can they perform an EKG? No.

As for the Biozen, do some research before you open your mouths. It has been scientifically proven to work.

I wouldn’t be without my Helo, just for the panic button feature alone, let alone all the other benefits that most of you are so ignorant of.

What price do you put on the health and safety of your loved ones? For me it’s priceless.

It does what it says it does. It is not a fitness band, it is a device that I consider a safety device. Your $100 band is not going to alert your loved ones and trusted guardians if you are physically in danger.

Leanne Crabb: Can you monitor your loved ones with them or receive an alert if they are in danger? No. Do they pay you to wear them. No. Do they have their own app store? No. Can they perform an EKG? No.

Yes, there’s SOS alert panic button.

Nobody pay you to wear it. You pay them to wear it PLUS monthly charges. You get paid when you convince other people to buy it.

App store? You only have 7 apps in there, including the HELO app itself.

And yes to ECG. After all it’s made by the SAME COMPANY.

See for yourself. It’s your HELO LX with a different face and a DISPLAY, which yours don’t even have!

Leanne Crabb:
It seems there’s a lot of uneducated people on here that don’t know the difference between an illegal pyramid scheme and a legal and completely legitimate network marketing company. Pyramid schemes do not have products to sell, network marketing companies do.

That’s an embarrassing, uneducated statement. Who told you that, your upline? See Herbalife and Vemma.

Pyramid schemes have people willing to pay for a product because of the lure of the income opportunity. This often results in a grandiose opinion of the product that they think is going to make them money. Sound familiar?

You’ve said it yourself. You’ve bought it because of the promise of the income opportunity! Come on…! Stop lying yourself about the real reason!

Would you purchase the same HELO because of its “health monitoring” features without attached income opportunity? Even if you can buy equivalent (same manufacturer, same features + display, different design) for $31 instead of $349?

And if I understand correctly – if you only wear it, they don’t pay you. You pay them! You give them your “real money” (monthly fees in Loyalty Program) and in exchange you’ll receive “Points” (which you can later exchange for limited selection of World’s products and services).

On the other side, I have to admit HELO is the fairest, most realistic project and possibly the best opportunity from World and Fabio Galdi so far (but it does not mean it is a good and fair business at all).

Well, inflate the price of the product and have marketing strong enough to sell it under such a price is a dream of any production company.

The trouble is… in long terms, you you can keep the inflated price only if you have no competitors (which is not the case here).

Recap the troubles with Fabio Galdi projects… the projects were always terminated before maturity (and the return of the investment form most affiliates). And the most of the projects were not grounded on realistic base:

Poweclouds
Revenue from investment into solar panels. Shared revenue (+ MLM commissions) generated by of production of solar energy.
Promised revenue was higher than realistic production gain of solar panel. Only 4 power station units were built (instead of 20).
.designed as a scam, already collapsed (significantly earlier before the maturity of investment)

Reselling Lumina Glasses
Similar model as with phones and HELO band. Commissions on dropshipping noname VR gadget.designed as scam, already collapsed – many affiliates did not even receive ordered and purchased gods

Thanks for this reference of Dunning-Kruger effect. After a long time I soaked here some new and inspiring information.

To generalise: this effect applies not only to Wor(l)d proponents, but also to the majority of income opportunities proponents. 😉 We can see them virtually in every discussion where some wannabe MLM or affiliate programme is uncovered.

Logical consequence (just for fun, I don’t know the source and its reliability): imgur.com/a/RdRLk

Wor(l)d is telling customers they can’t issue refunds due to “Technical Problems”.

More and more people are posting screenshots on Wor(l)d’s official FB page of responses received from wor(l)d customer service telling them “all refund operations are interrupted due to technical problems”.

My husband is a dear sweet guy, VERY vulnerable to MLM B.S. I’d like him to read all the comments on this page, but I know he’d take Fred’s side – the “I don’t know about other people, but it works for me and I’m not hurting anybody” side.

Before I met him he had become involved in multiple different MLM companies – never really siging up people, but buying and making the absurdly expensive products available to others.

I have read each comment above and looked into every link (some don’t work).

People can be oversold there are some awful MLM people out there but there are also good ones.

Am I sitting on the fence? No way and I can speak from experience. I have been at the end of my patience with people trying to sell me diet shakes, skin cream, tee and coffee.

I have an Apple Watch it’s boring if I’m honest I’m not a gadget person really.

I have a fitbit why? my husband bought it I have no idea! But when I heard about the Helo I wanted one for my 87-year-old mum who is amazing but frighteningly independent.

I’ve done MLM with Forever Living and I hated it. However I was never told Helo was an MLM product when I first heard about it.

I went home to my family showed them details and it was my family that suggested I sell them too, it was only then I went back and asked was there a possibility I could sell them I was told it was an mlm company and if I’m honest at that point I nearly said no thanks, but I wanted one so much for my mum it sounded like it was worth a go.

A business in a box for £1300 was cheaper than a new machine for me.

The $59 a month was also ok too because it gives us cloud space to store the Helo readings ongoing, insurance policy to cover the devices but we actually get $75 in credit for goods everytime we pay the $59.

So in actual fact they give me back every penny +$16 so money wise it’s a very good deal.

Does my mum like wearing a Helo! Not really but we changed the band to a nice leather one that she likes and it’s more acceptable and knows it makes us feel more at ease.

Is she worried about not wearing the Germainium stones no she prefers a nicer band that is easier to put on.

Mood and Energy? I thought what a load of rubbish! Still do really.

Do I wear a Helo well I’m shocked to say I do. Considering I hate my fitbit and my apple watch, I do wear it BUT I think only because of a shock I had a week into wearing it.

My dad died after having a stroke, my vitals had always been ok so I wasn’t expecting to find I had a problem but I had a blood pressure problem, the doctors were shocked at how accurate the readings are.

They can’t understand how it works but then that’s not my job or theirs to understand. I do machine embroidery I don’t know how the computer works or the machine it just does what I tell it to do.

The doctors use all sorts of other equipment they have no idea how it works they just use it and are glad of it.

Yes at $199 they are not cheap. More if you want Germainium. It’s more and you may well laugh because I did at first, my elbow doesn’t hurt when I wear it.

I don’t understand that either but if it stops pain that’s good with me.

I went without my Helo for a few days and put the apple watch on I really didn’t like it and gave it to my niece, I then put the fitbit on I tolerated it more than I had but I didn’t feel safe I wanted the readings in one go and to know I’ll be allerted if things aren’t good.

I feel safe with the Helo. I am 60 and hope I have a few more good years left in me I believe that I am helped by the figures and information Helo provide I will.

As a business well because of needing to make healthy choices to keep within safe parameters of my vital signs I have lost weight, avoided an operation and people around me can see the difference so everyone wants to get on board and join the business.

Will it make me a millionaire NO I doubt it ever will but it does mean I don’t need to work weekends and evenings anymore and I think within a year my income will be 100% from Helo.

Diabetes runs in my family I can’t wait for the app to be available as well as the blood oxegen app.

So you can say what you like about MLM because yes it does come with a bad name but that’s down to people behaving like idiots and forcing people into stuff.

I call the Helo my magic wristband because it is, if you haven’t tried it don’t knock it and my neighbour is the worst he has spent £££££ trying to show me it can be bought cheaper but nothing he’s bought works like a Helo in fact most have stopped working full stop!!!

Congrats on spending so much space for telling how awesome income opportunity this will be (re: “it does mean I don’t need to work weekends and evenings anymore and I think within a year my income will be 100% from Helo“).

For the beginning of your post I made the mistake I thought you were trying to say Helo is a good product.

Anyway:

Embroidery Angel: trying to show me it can be bought cheaper but nothing he’s bought works like a Helo in fact most have stopped working full stop!!!

What comes to paying extra for a HELO and expecting to get something special, feel free to pay $112 for the band, here (visit link) is the same hardware put into a different band for $87 / piece. SOS functionality included for your convenience.

A friend of mine has been distributor since April of this year. To say he is struggling is an understatement.

He works 16 hours a day 7 days a week trying to recruit new distributors. He averages about 2 new recruits per month but only has one person on his team who is also recruiting people.

She averages about 1-2 recruits per week. He has given up trying to sell the Helo (not much money to be made from commissions on product) and just focuses on recruiting people who want to do “the business.”

Problem is since there are no repeat sales, he is constantly trying to recruit new people. He even buys more family packs and executive packs to try to level up in the “organization” but all he has managed to do is win more vouchers for vacations he can’t afford to take (the vouchers are worth $2000, same as a pack of Helos he has to buy to win it!).

Ironically this has caused him much stress and high blood pressure according to his Helo but he has no health insurance or money to do anything about it.

He has no other income since his upline motivates people by telling them to “burn your ships” in other words go all in so you feel you have something at stake and basically no other option but to make it work any way you can.

It is very sad because he won’t listen to anyone but his upline and thinks they care if he succeeds.

Reality is if he succeeds his upline gets paid, if he quits his recruits move up and his upline still gets paid.

This is the best information I have found so far. My sister has been brainwashed into this pyramid scheme and nothing I say will make her listen. She actually won’t even talk to me now.

She tried to recruit me by selling me a $1400 pack, saying if I was one of her two spots I would have it made. I watched the video, I told her it all sounded way too good to be true and that it was a scam.

I looked up everything I could on Fabio and the company and found more and more damning information. They are not accredited with the BBB, but have an F rating because of all the complaints against them, most of which WorldGN never responds to.

I’ve tried to distance myself from what she is getting into, but she is a single mom who is under water with her mortgage and property taxes and now she is going to the convention in Las Vegas and getting into even more debt.

She’s trying to talk family into signing on and she’s even put the Helo on my father, when it clearly states it should not be worn by anyone with a pacemaker.

I can’t understand with all the complaints, with Fabio’s history and other shady characters involved, why this company isn’t being investigated.

One of the first things I do when doing Due Diligence on a product based company like Helo is to straight to Ebay and see what the cost is.

Then I ask the person promoting it, Why would I buy it for 400 from you when I can get the same product for 26 dollars on Ebay.. Oh yeah… if I dont want to wait I can pay 71 dollars and get it in a few days from a U.S. Seller.

Point being…. When you are paying 600% to 1600% more for a product when you have to buy it from Location A compared to Location B….. that is a serious problem and it will never go away until one of the LOCATIONS usually goes away… and trust me… EBAY is not going away!!!

I come from Wor(l)d, which I left two months ago. I was one of the early adapters in the company once the wearable made its debut.

In my most humblest opinions, stay completely away from this company.

This company has a horrific history of maintaining their Customer Service, as well as refunding reps for many years now.

A leader in the Wor(l)d just walked away from the company and called Wor(l)d a glorified Ponzi Scheme. Which I have to agree, however Ponzi would not be the correct word to describe the inappropriate actions of Wor(l)d.

I could actually type a chronological calendar of bad behavior, unethical business tactics, clever stalling, smoke and mirrors, bait and switch, outright lying of why they lost their merchant account, deception concerning the Infolio, why they often extend their week cycles, how their products work 30 to 40% of the time, embarrassing miscalculations, the incredible amount of returns of their HELO LX last summer and how basically the field runs the company.

Trust me, I could go on for a long time explaining the miscues and lack of people ranking in Wor(l)d, how so many leaders who achieved high rankings could never grow their business past that ranking again, how most likely 98% of all the leaders in Wor(l)d only had to build one leg, how its almost impossible >>> or really hard to rank up in Wor(l)d and how the leaders know that the revolving door will keep bringing in fresh blood to suck dry.

I need to go to bed, I will type more if requested.

Oz, I don’t always agree with you, but you scored a bingo with this debacle.

I got sucked in to the MLM, and only because I thought the product was something I could get behind.

Both my wife and I used the HELO for several weeks. My wife is a loyal FitBit user, and she compared both.

The Helo LX didn’t come close to matching the accuracy of the functions of FitBit, but here’s the real kicker. I calibrated my Helo for blood pressure monitoring and it seemed pretty accurate and consistent.

Then I tried testing my blood pressure with the device off of my wrist. Miracle of miracles! The blood pressure reading was exactly the same!

Just to be sure I didn’t have a faulty device, I did the same test with my wife’s Helo, same results! That’s quite impressive that it can take all my readings while sitting on the bedside table.

…a magical facelift after the launch by UMIDIGI.UMIDIGI has undoubtedly spent 6 or more months to produce a phone they can present to the public in September 2017.In contrast, Wor(l)d didn’t need to…

(Point being, it would have taken months for UMIDIGI to produce a physical phone matching a design from e.g. Wor(l)d GN, but it only takes hours for Wor(l)d to update their webpage with design copied from UMIDIGI launch.)

Also, from what I understand the phones are “bought” with loyalty points but World charges exorbitant “shipping” fees for them, like hundreds of dollars, enough to cover not only any S&H but the actual cost of the phones as well.

To have white labelling for INFOLIO, and lied to their distributors with two “fake-advertising” INFOLIO is totally BS.

Which means, WORLD GN doe not even have a phone to sell. their CDO De Rosa is a complete joke. upfront lying on how good he is.

I wonder whether their leaders know how SHAMEFUL it is to have fake white labelling phone and still claim its theirs. a piece of BS

And now their LX + is another joke, which costs USD399, and LX is USD199. whats the whole point of buying a USD399 with no meaningful improvement, and its almost march, and there is NO announcement in regards on the HELO EXTENSE or their sugar trending software until today.

Prolly have to wait for their Taylor Worre.

Our last check on their corporate FB, Taylor disappeared for 2-3 weeks. Perhaps he was resigned from WORLD? I won’t thinking he was laid off, I think he “knew some fishy thing going on with the Italian brothers”, and decide to resign before the wheels fall off! Ponzi scheme BEWARE!

Helo LX+ is really odd piece of work. The store has no spec sheet whatsoever for it. One would assume there would be a list of things that justify the $200 USD additional price but no.

The WGN website does mention that Helo LX+ resists sweating but does not resist shower, wash up, swim or bath. That’s insane for a device you are by definition supposed to wear 24/7!

After digging deep enough I manged to find the brochure: NOLINK://my.worldgn.com/press/newsletter/brochure_helo_v2.pdf

It tells us the Helo LX+ is “Ready for Non-Invasive Glucose Monitoring”, with the footnote that “the non-invasive glucose monitor algorithm and apps is not included in the early release of HELO LX+. The upgrade will be available later”. I wouldn’t hold my breath while waiting for it.

In addition to that I capture that it has UV sensor and the green LEDs that track pulse are now accompanied with red LEDs (for what purpose?).

Good points for digging into more. I tried to read more, I guess all distributors are “mislead” for their “fake advertising” of non-invasive glucose since 2016. Which means it has been more than 2 years now, and NOTHING has been delivered.

Fake fake fake. And WORLDGN now use a copied phone to produce to the field. That’s a SHAME.

And yet the Global Master Distributors are handsomely being PAID millions for FAKE advertisement and misled thousands people to this PONZI. drive sport cars to entice innocent people.

In addition to that, I presume, many leaders will start a LAWSUIT against the Master distributors?

After reading all the comments and info, I felt sad for my friends who are being cheated to buy this scam products and those who still believe that this scam products can help them and give them good income.

I felt even sorry for those who bought this scam products at such exorbitant prices.

I did a thorough investigation into WGN when a very seasoned MLMer mentioned it to me.

At first it seemed very intriguing especially if they had a product that could read blood sugar in real time. Well that promise has never materialized and likely never will before the company falls flat on it’s face.

This will be yet another in a string of failures (ripoff scams) for Fabio Galdi. What is not mentioned here is the previous solar panel scam that preceded Power Clouds.

Because the company was listed on the pink slip exchange it was very easy to see what was going on financially, that is if they met their filing requirements on time, something they failed to do over and over and over again.

They blamed their filing delay on concentrating on other matters to build their business…scam. Their financials were clear and the numerous shell companies and change of names and ownership within such a short period of time spelled massive instability and lack of funding.

There is a reason people can’t return their faulty product and it is because they are practically insolvent and require the revenue from new members to barely keep this sinking ship afloat.

This is a 100% scam and the people behind it are the very best at swindling people out of their hard earned money. Run for the hills folks!!!

Also I forgot to mention. Who in their right mind would even try and compete with Apple ($250 billion in cash) who are actually designing their own chip to read blood sugar…something the also failing Toshiba chip will never do.

So latest word is that key marketing material for “BioZen” was allegedly (**not yet confirmed to my knowledge**) faked and is actually a copy of Waveex test docs, replacing all instances of the word “Waveex” with “BioZen” and altering images with pictures of their own green BioZen sticker apparently pasted over the pink Waveex.

Another rebranding change to WGN 2.0 last week. previously was a change in their logo to a ribbon freedom theme. and then previously was their WRMT to WCOR. Then reshuffling the entire board of managements.

It seems like Fabio is repeating the same old patterns to cover up all the failed promises and products deliveries by re-shifting distributors’ focus to the rebranding, but the truth of the matter is, they are manipulating the masses and have failed since day one. Spacestation was a failure since 5 years ago.

Apparently, the Puranaputra’s families are in a struggling position right now (And entice the masses with their fake income earning claims at businessforhome), trying to revive their own movements with this WGN 2.0 movement on social media.

It’s the same old story of MLM gimmicks since they launched 2 years ago. But the sad thing and the truth is, Fabio and De Rosa have failed again and again, and using the masses to feed their pockets before the whole game sinks.

Pity the sales officer, Douglos and Dave trying to save this sinking unsustainable company while the Italians disappeared.

Lifelong was a failure.

Helo classic was a failure.

Helo LX 2nd was a failure.

Helo LX plus was a failure.

Toshiba chip partnership was a failure.

Software was a failure.

Hardware was a failure.

Heka App was a failure.

Heka App Plus was a failure.

Infolio was a failure.

Biozen was a failure.

Biozen plus was a failure.

Customer Service was a failure.

App Store was a failure.

Blood Sugar idea was a faiure.

Helo extense was a failure.

Alcohol monitoring was a failure.

WCOR/WRMT stock was a failure.

Management was a failure.

TD Pool Bonus was a failure.

Loyalty points was a failure.

Nasdaq listing idea was a failure.

….so many failures… Everything they do has failed apparently.

Diamonds have left. Presidents have left. Taylor has left. Top leaders have slowly left.

And yet some leaders are still lying to the masses. and listening to the Puranaputra’s families and Galdi’s families.

Interesting shows to watch for next few months on what dramas they are cooking right now.

Kasey Chang:
Surprisingly, the first announcement of their alleged blood sugar monitoring capability was made in a press release back in January 2017. Something WGN would rather you NOT to remember.

Yes. Isn’t it irony. It seems it has become a norm and trend for the Italian managements to use this “ignorance” tactic to slide off their initial promises from the masses, and then refocus the masses to the “future gimmicks”, just to bring unsustainable hype to the masses.

All these are just to sustain their Global Master Distributors, Puranputra’s Income as long as possible, before everything goes burst before June.

Why June? Because based on Romacio’s FB Video announcement. The HELO EXTENSE sugar monitor “TOY” will only be released in End of May. Thats another 5 weeks before the DOOMSDAY.

The truth is, Fabio IS NOT able to even produce any glucose tech. All of these was a “old fashioned scamming tactic” to con the innocent masses since 2016.

The bright side of this, many leaders have already decided to resign from their position, and protect their reputation, and venture to other places; the dark side of this, there are still many “leaders” trying to lie to their masses to believe for the “Good days” and do whatever it takes to feed the top leaders’ pockets buy asking the downlines to stock up packages.

Right now for this 2.0 movement, Fabio is putting a new game, to distract the distributors to believe there are “app stores” for the DNA, nutrition customisation, fitness 2.0 app. which all of these are just a mere joke.

I wonder how many days left for these crooks, Puranaputra families, chad and Nattida and the galdi’s brothers to be put in prison and be sued by the distributors to court for scamming people since day one.

DocMcStuffins:
I think its so weird that the videos the team leaders make that are intended for other distributors are shared publicly on Facebook. Why do they do that?!

Yes. Here are my personal thoughts.

Putting a FACEBOOK live Monday call is the WORST mistake since day one. Reason is, no other companies’ distributors would actually want to risk this. it only do more HARM than good.

worst case is with wgn, where the truth is the products are failure, people are awfully unhappy, and loyalty programme lies, and their promised features never delivered; all of these have caused more PUBLIC SHAME when other companies and other leaders actually watch the video.

It’s a COMPLETELY JOKE.

The number 1 reason for strong successful company is “Great products”. the sad case of worldgn is, the product is a plastic toy and its junk, and it has more than 75% failure products sent back to Hong Kong service centre.

Think about it, you have to pay your own shipping cost from USA to Hong Kong, just because of their toy products.

Of course, Chad & Nattida would ask their flocks to “believe in the vision”, because this is their “only hope” to sustain their”face”. But the truth is, many top leaders from other companies are “laughing their face off”at Chad and Nattida since last year.

They act so ego, they act so untouchable. and the thing is in the leadership groupchat, NO ONE is allowed to ask any questions.

Any questions asked in the gouachat, will be viewed “negative” by Chad and Nattida. And they will remove you from the group chat. Isn’t it stupid and childish?

To answer your question why does the company extend the cycle, is very simple. Because WorldGN does not have sufficient cashflow to pay their distributors on time. Hence the best way is to prolong the weekly cycles.

The truth is, worldgn is running in negative financial cashflow now.

Just think about it, this week they have to start doing PRICE REDUCTION DUMPING for their helo lx plus (minus -$150!). What does it tell the public now?

Means its only 2 months ago that they introduce another toy helo lx plus. And now only after 2 months, NO ONE wants to buy the lx plus since they lied about glucose extense (299$).

And with their newly appointed scapegoat, Douglas and Dave; in less than 2 weeks, they decided to price dump their HELO LX PLUS. this creates more anger and frustrations to their existing customers.

WORLDGN is a joke. Never have the industry seen such shameful company and product and management and also global master distributors.

DocMcStuffins:
All of the reviews that were on Worlds Facebook page are now gone.

LOL! Of course they have to remove, in order to “Save their latest 2.0 rebranding”. It’s a PURE SCAM, NO REFUND, LIE. No company has such negative, and scamming reviews other than worlgn.

And thats why they have to rebrand their new lousy W logo last month for no reason, and rebrand their WGN 2.0 for no reason, and try their best to swipe all their frauds under the carpet right now, and distract people’s attentions to more apps coming soon. lol

Mr. Fabio has disappeared. now its the face for Doug to run the show. It’s all scam scam scam.

Apparently, It’s just a matter of time that WORLD will go bust, when Chad & Nattida loses all of their Diamonds leaders and President Leaders in 1-2 months.

Right now, they are just doing their best to hold on as long as they could while finding another platform to jump ship.

let me put this into proper perspective, Chad & Nattida are NOT stupid people. They are Smart, cunning and analytical.

They know since last year that Mr. Fabio CANNOT deliver any promises that are made. But since Chad and Nattida have already abandoned OG, and come over to WORLD, and do over-hype egoistic Facebook live, right now at this moment; they CANNOT lose their face to quit world to do other mlm.

All they can do now week after week, is to pretend to look happy and excited and talk about the stupid visions, and lies and lies; just to hold to their “face” as long as they could.

The truth is, Chad and Nattida are already looking for other MLM company with their parents. before abandoning everything in few months.

In case you guys didn’t realise, the 3 SCAMMERS, Nat & Chanida, Nattida and Chad & Romacio are desperately in need of MONEY! They have lost out tonnes of leaders since last few months, and volumes have dropped drastically.

Now they are SELLING $70/person for LIVE STREAMING coach online! What a CROOK. Selling $70 dollar/person to their DOWNLINES to sign up?!! and teach them skills? Why can’t they even GIVE IT FREE for their downlines? It is NOT even a third party event. It’s their own organisation event, and they still CHARGE $70 per person.

Totally a SCUMBAG.

And the thing is, there are still faithful “blinded followers” who will give them their money. LOL

By now I think they should have mosquito-repellant, blood pressure measuring, blood sugar checking, mood detecting, fertility predicting wristband available?

All silent?

UTTERLY SCUMBAG! They have taken down the FB REVIEWS, too many negative reviews. I should say negative TRUTH.

Last heard in CES & Romacio FB, the glucose device will ship on in JUNE. That’s next month! But all is silent now. Corporate remains silent. They and the SCUMBAG puranaputra thieves families are swaying their SHEEPS direction to “SINGAPORE EVENT IN JULY”.

None of them are even dare to tipping into the topic of GLUCOSE. SHAME!

Thousands of good Samaritans have fallen into the FAKE ADVERTISEMENT of WORLD GLOBAL NETWORK since 2016! 2 years later, NONE of the super magic features are released!

I wonder how many Diamonds, Presidents are actually still building WORLD! SHAME

No Harrie, don’t expect any drama here. Exit strategy for scams like this is to retreat silently, or to claim and promise some future “bigger” (but vague) plans “coming soon” and don’t tease too much with near term promises and announcements.

Just to keep the victims in a false hope and under a critical level of their anger.

After an year or so Wor(l)d will pop up again with a brand new shining and limits breaking project.

I saw this BEHINDMLM link and I spend almost AN HOUR reading every single comment! NOTHING TO DISAGREE! Everything said here is TRUTH!

WOR(L)D Global Network IS A SCAM!

I WONDER WHY IS THIS BEHINDMLM LINK NOT POSTED IN THE WORLD’S FB COMMENT? So that any public or their “INNOCENT FAITHFUL SHEEP” can click the link in the company FB page and read all of these comments!

1.) Because most of us follow our own favorite pet-scam-projects which we follow and are active on.

2.) Because you haven’t posted this yet. (Just be ready for them to open Chapter 2 verse 5 of the international Ponzi Playbook for the following Excuse: “That’s not a credible source, they see our popularity and are just looking to get “click-throughs” because they’re Penny-chasing-parasites (PPP’s) and jealous of our success, which shows you we’re doing something right, and its run by bitcoin [or whatver] haterz who are paid by bitcoin [or whatever product/ service/ crypto, etc] because they’re scared …and …and ….”)

Ps. probably the wrong thread, but Islam Brothers who bounced from Wor(l)d to Omnia Mining have allegedly now bounced from that (after also securing a huge downline to perpetuate the funding of their lavish lifestyles built on the misleading and broken dreams their victims were promised)

Now the latest is World “secured the chips from Toshiba” for the Extense WHICH INDICATES THE THING ISNT EVEN BUILT YET. How do you show it at CES, say it’s going to come out time and time again then constantly delay it THEN make an announcement about the building of the thing?!

I legitimatrly feel sorry for the distributors. They attribute all of this to growing pains and stand behind the company for going slow and doing it right.

If they were doing it right they would not talk about and promise things that don’t exist.

This is so obviously a scam. How long will they wait around? 3 months? 6? 1 year? 5 years?

It’s all SCAM! They now say they secured the chips from Toshiba, then whats the product expense explained and displayed in CES January?

Nothing was mentioned about Toshiba chip! This means it’s PURE SCAM in January to try to HYPE the business, with FAKE PLASTIC product, and articulated software displayed on the monitor screen.

Remember what Fabio says in CES? He DOES NOT allow anyone to even try out the protocol extense in CES January! completely a joke!

And they also joked that they are in final stage to get FTC Pending on the glucose since last October in Vegas, and 10 months later today, suddenly they say they secured the Toshiba chip. JOKE of the century!

Btw, any technology company out there has more or less the same toshiba chips, intel chip etc. but I never see Apple releases a statement and make a HU-HA that “Apple secured the chips from Intel”!hahahahhahha

And now WGN2.0 is broadcasting to the whole world that they secure Toshiba chip? *Facepalm*

Trust me, they are will collapsing soon! Nat & Chanida and Chad and Nattida are already paving their way out from world, and waiting for deals from other company.

July Singapore event is just another “Las Vegas October” show. They will talk about the stupid AI vision, Big Data vision, and their lousy app vision, and then lure the sheep to think that WGN2.0 is APPLE and AMAZON look-alike

The sad truth is! 99% of WORLDGN leaders (Diamond,DD, GD, P, DP,GP) are making less than $1000-$2000 ONE MONTH! *another face palm*

Go ask Nat & Chanida to show you their back office commission, whether they make $1.2 million as claimed by Businessforhome!

Go ask Chad Nattida to show you their $750,000 commission as claimed by Businessforhome!

They will get nervous and HEARTATTACK if they even show your their back office commission!

Now BusinessForHome is a PAID article trying to lure innocent people to join worldgn! with FAKE commission claim. pure stupid and disgrace to MLM.

Need not much sharing and prediction. We all know the same all hype! I agree with your prediction! Wink!

In fact, allow me to put my TRUTH on this plate after all the conventions our teams have attended and the President Calls we had.

Today it’s July.

They are “supposed” to launch the Glucose stuff last October, but no words were mentioned by Corporate. And the top leaders scammers have NO CHOICE, but to keep saying “IF ONLY YOU KNEW WHAT WE KNOW!”.

Stupid immature marketing words by the scumbag Nattida! LOL!

She and her funny hubby has “promised” us many stupid promises since day one, and NONE came to pass! And yes! We are all Presidents & diamonds and above mind you! Wink again!

I guess this weekend Singapore event, I’m sure Majority of the leaders are NOT even attending, all know the same old trick by Fabio!

Poor all new flocks Who continue to buy into their “vision”. I should say “illusion!” LOL!

Maybe they will say a FDA APPROVED glucose EXTENSE on the way, but still waiting for the pending patent (since last October?) APPLE company must be laughing off the chair!

LETS HAVE POPCORN & see!

Doc McStuffins:
Do you have your popcorn ready? The Singapore event is coming soon! I want to hear everyone’s predictions.

They have bought more time. The people who are buying Extense now will get it in late September.

Will they come out at all? This is heating up!

Also does anyone think it’s weird that at first they said the Extense had to be used with a Helo to do the readings (and people weren’t happy about that) sobnow they are saying you don’t have to, that it can be used by itself.

Also it used to just be able to say the blood sugar is “a little high” (also not popular) and now they are saying it gives an exact number.

How can these major components of the device be changed after its supposedly already developed?!

PS: of all the companies on earth that I wouldnt Want to have a DNA sample of mine, it’s WGN.

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